John 14:1-31 - The Sufficiency of Christ

And thinking about them caused my kids a certain amount of anxiety simply because they were taking that responsibility that wasn’t theirs and not trusting us to take care of them.

We can be the same way with Jesus.

It’s not our responsibility to get ourselves to heaven or to figure out what to do while we wait for eternity in heaven.

It’s our responsibility to trust Jesus and obey him.

It’s so natural for us to worry about what we have to do especially when our future is unclear to us.

We worry because we think its up to us to ensure that our future is the way we want it to be.

We elevate ourselves to a responsibility we were never intended to have.

It’s Jesus’ responsibility to work out all the details in his sovereignty.

It’s our responsibility to trust him and obey him.

Trust and obey

For there’s no other way

To be happy in Jesus

Than to trust and obey.

But when we’re tempted to worry, to take this responsibility that isn’t ours.

What’s going to help us let go of that responsibility and simply trust and obey?

That’s what John chapter 14 is all about.

Because we tend to worry about things that are not ours to worry about, Jesus has given us comfort through four different aspects of his sufficiency as we wait for his return and eternity with him.

We are going to look at each aspect one at a time.

And the first aspect of the sufficiency of Christ is in verses 1-6.

The comfort that he himself is the way to be in his presence forever.

John 14:1–3 ESV

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

John 14:4–6 ESV

And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Here, Jesus explains to his disciples that HE is the way to be with him where he is going.

Jesus is Sufficient as the Way to His Presence (1-6)

At the end of the previous chapter Peter had one big question about what Jesus had just said.

Jesus said that he was going away, and Peter wanted to know where Jesus was going.

Now, the heart behind his question was not simply Jesus’ travel itinerary.

The heart behind his question was a desire to be with Jesus… a desire to not be away from Jesus’ presence.

All of the disciples had this feeling.

They all felt anxious, or troubled, or fearful at the thought of not being with Jesus.

So Jesus continues his answer of Peter’s question in order to alleviate that anxiety.

To comfort his disciples as they were unsure of what life would be like without Jesus with them.

Jesus breaks into their troubled hearts with a command to the contrary.

Don’t let your hearts be troubled!

What do you mean?

I can’t help it, it’s just troubled!

How do I not let my heart be troubled, especially when my circumstances are so troubling!?

Jesus told his disciples, and he’s also telling you, exactly how to not let your heart be troubled.

He says, “Believe in God; believe also in me.”

At first this doesn’t seem to be an effective way to avoid a troubled heart.

Sure, I believe in God and Jesus, but I’m still worried!

There are plenty of people who believe in God and believe in Jesus who are still plagued by a troubled heart.

But the Greek word for believe, here, can also be translated trust.

The way to not let our heart be troubled when life is troubling is to trust God and trust Jesus.

He’s all powerful, he’s all good, and he loves you.

Trust him!

He’s got this!

He’s got you!

Well, Jesus doesn’t just leave us with this command to trust him without assuring us of what he’s going to do.

He goes on to explain in verse 2 where he’s going and what he’ll be doing when he is away from his disciples.

He’s going to his Father’s house, another name for heaven.

And he’s going there to prepare a place for them and for all of us who believe in him.

So that we can be in his presence forever.

And in verse 3 he says that he’s coming back for us.

It wouldn’t make much sense for him to prepare a place for us and then not give us a way to occupy that place he prepared.

He’s coming back to get us and bring us with him to live in his loving presence forever.

We already know the way to occupy that place because it’s Jesus himself.

But Thomas doesn’t quite get it.

He wonders again where Jesus is going like Peter did, but he also wonders how we can know the way if we don’t know the destination.

The heart of Thomas’ question is self-reliance.

He wants to know the exact route turn-by-turn so that he can get there on his own.

He wants to know the playbook and the entire strategy so he can get himself to the goal.

He wants to know and do more than he’s responsible for.

Kind of like my kids on our adventures!

And Jesus tells him in verse 6 that all he needs to know is that Jesus will get him there.

He says that he is the way to his presence.

He is the way to occupy the place he has prepared for us in his Father’s house.

He is the way, and the truth, and the life.

Now, Jesus will go on through the rest of this chapter to explain in detail how he is the truth and the life.

But here I’ll simply note how these three things apply to us coming to the Father through Jesus.

Jesus is the way we come to the Father’s house, heaven.

Jesus is the truth of our adoption into the Father’s family.

And Jesus is the source of our life to live with the Father forever.

It’s such a comfort to know that we’ll be in Jesus’ presence forever.

And that there’s nothing we need to do to get there other than trust him.

He’s sufficient as the way to come to the Father, to his presence, and all we need to do is trust him to do it.

So, the first aspect of the sufficiency of Christ is the comfort that Jesus is the way to his presence.

Now, the second aspect of the sufficiency of Christ is in verses 7-17.

The comfort that he is the truth of his identity within the trinity.

Jesus says,

John 14:7–9 ESV

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

John 14:10–12 ESV

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves. “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

John 14:13–17 ESV

Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

So, this is how Jesus explains the truth of his identity within the trinity.

Jesus is Sufficient as the Truth of His Identity (7-17)

Jesus is one of three persons in the trinity.

One God, three persons.

It’s kind of confusing, but bear with me.

Jesus is God along with the Father.

So, knowing Jesus is knowing the Father since they’re both God.

Jesus says as much in verse 7, but Philip makes a statement in verse 8 that shows a lack of understanding about the trinity that most of us can identify with.

There is no human relationship that even comes close to the oneness of the trinity.

Even in marriage we’re considered “one flesh,” but I can’t say, “If you know me then you know my wife.”

We’re close but we can never be that close.

The relationship between the persons of the trinity is closer than anything we could ever fully experience in the world.

Philip asks to see the Father, but God told Moses in Exodus 33:20 “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.””

Philip sort of asks for the impossible, but the heart behind his request is assurance.

He wanted assurance that they would be alright through Jesus’ plan to prepare them a place in the Father’s house and come back for them.

Again, this is a lack of trust, but this time it came from a lack of understanding the nature of the trinity.

So, Jesus clarifies the relationship of oneness he has with the Father in verses 9-11.

In verse 9 he says that he makes the Father visible.

This is what John mentioned in the prologue of his gospel account.

In John 1:18 he wrote, “No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.”

Jesus also mentioned the invisibility of the Father on a couple of occasions in John’s gospel.

He told the religious leaders in John 5:37 that they had never seen the Father.

And in John 6:46 he told the Jews who were grumbling about him that only he had ever seen the Father.

Well, not only does Jesus make the Father visible to us who believe in him…

In verse 10 Jesus says that he speaks the Father’s words.

Jesus said the same thing to the religious leaders in John 8:28 as he proved his claim to be the Christ, though they denied it.

And he said the same thing in John 12:49 after he left the people for their unbelief just after his triumphal entry.

So, Jesus makes the Father visible, and speaks the Father’s words…

And in verse 11 Jesus says that he does the Father’s works.

Jesus used the evidence of these works to prove his deity in John 5:36 and again in John 10:25.

But then Jesus went on to say almost the same thing he says here in our passage in John 10:37–38.

He said, “If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.””

Well, Jesus’ identity within the trinity is not only his relationship with the Father, but also his deity within himself and our relationship with him.

Jesus talks about this in verses 12-14.

Believing in Jesus results in doing greater works through him because he is God.

Jesus says in verser 12 that whoever believes in him will do the same works and even greater works because he’s going to the Father.

How in the world can mere humans do the same works as almighty God, let alone greater works?

Well, if we were left to ourselves to try and do the same works or even greater works it wouldn’t work.

Because we don’t have that kind of power.

The only way we can do the same and greater works than almighty God is if he’s doing them through us.

And that’s exactly what happens because Jesus went back to the Father.

What works is Jesus referring to here?

Walking on water?

Multiplying food?

Raising the dead?

I think that last one is closer to the mark than the others.

The works that Jesus is talking about is the spread of the gospel and new spiritual life spreading all over the world.

Paul wrote in Romans 10:13–15 “For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!””

We get to do greater works than even Jesus did in his earthly ministry simply by preaching the gospel.

Because as we preach the gospel the Holy Spirit brings spiritually dead sinners to life and applies the work of Christ to them so that they are saved from sin and death.

That’s a work far greater than anything Jesus did simply because it’s the culmination of all of his works, specifically his work on the cross.

Now, Jesus also promised in verse 13 a particular relationship with him where he will grant us anything we ask in his name to the glory of the Father.

And he succinctly repeats the core of this relationship in verse 14.

Again, this is a relationship we have with Jesus in light of his identity within the trinity as God in himself.

And Jesus explains it as a comfort to his anxious disciples.

But, can we really ask Jesus for anything and he’ll do it?

Not necessarily.

We have to ask… in his name.

What does it mean to ask or do something in someone’s name?

It means asking or doing something according to the will and authority of the person you’re naming.

When we baptize people we do so, “IN THE NAME of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.”

We baptize them according to the will and authority of all three persons of the trinity.

When we pray, we usually end our prayer, “IN Jesus’ NAME.”

We are praying according to the will and authority of Jesus.

If you ask Jesus for something and you know that thing is not something he would want…

Then you can’t legitimately claim to be asking in his name.

You’ve got to find out what Jesus would want by experiencing him in his Word.

If you ask Jesus for something and you are asserting your own authority (like naming and claiming your so called blessings)…

Then you can’t legitimately claim to be asking in Jesus’ name.

Because at that point you are asking in your own name, and your name haz zero authority.

You also have to be willing to be told no for your request.

Because sometimes what we ask for is unknowingly not his will.

And if you get bent out of shape because Jesus didn’t say yes, then you didn’t really ask in his authority, in his name.

So, when you ask Jesus for things in your prayers, you must be as sure as you can that your requests are things that Jesus would want.

And you must be sure that you are submitting to his authority to answer as he sees fit in his authority, not yours.

So, we looked at Jesus’ identity within the trinity regarding his relationship with the Father, and his authority as the second person of the trinity in himself.

But Jesus also talked about his relationship with the Holy Spirit, the third person of the trinity in verses 15-17.

And that relationship also includes us.

We seek to love Jesus by obeying his commandments in the power of the Holy Spirit whom the Father sends at the Son’s request.

In verse 15 Jesus says that loving him means obeying his commandments.

And the primary commandment he just gave in chapter 13 is to love each other.

Loving Jesus means loving each other.

John said as much in his first epistle.

1 John 4:20–21 “If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.”

This commandment can be really difficult to do because sometimes people are not very lovable.

That’s why Jesus immediately follows up this statement with the promise of the Holy Spirit, another helper like Jesus, the Spirit of truth.

Jesus made it easy for the disciples to love each other because he was the perfect example of that love lived out right in front of them.

All they had to do is look at how Jesus was loving and do likewise.

And Jesus promises them and us another helper like him.

The Holy Spirit also makes it easy to love each other if we’re relying on him.

Because he is the Spirit of truth.

The Holy Spirit teaches us the truth and reminds us of the truth of Jesus’ love so we can be like him.

Now, the world can’t receive the Holy Spirit because the world is enslaved to the lies of Satan.

But the disciples know the Holy Spirit because he’s been with them in Jesus,

And the Holy Spirit will be IN them as he’s poured out on all believers after Pentecost.

And that outpouring causes all three persons of the trinity to take up residence in every believer’s heart.

That means that if you are a believer, then you have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit living inside of you, empowering you to love each other in obedient love of God in Christ.

We just need to be reminded of that when we’re faced with loving people who are not very lovable at the time.

So, the first aspect of the sufficiency of Christ was the comfort that he is the way to be in his presence.

And the second aspect was the comfort of the truth of his identity within the trinity and our relationship with the trinity as well.

Now, the third aspect of the sufficiency of Christ is in verses 18-24.

The comfort that he is the source of eternal life and the source of the love we live as we await his return.

John 14:18–20 ESV

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

John 14:21–22 ESV

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”

John 14:23–24 ESV

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me.

So, this is how Jesus explains how he is the source of the eternal life we look forward to, and the source of the love we live now as we await his return.

Jesus is Sufficient as the Life-source of His Love (18-24)

There are two aspects of life Jesus talks about here, this life and the life to come.

The life to come is what we are waiting for when Jesus returns, and Jesus talks about this in verses 18-20.

In verse 18 Jesus tells his disciples that he will not leave them as orphans, but he will return for them.

The imagery of orphans is striking.

I’ve never been an orphan, but I have interacted with them at an orphanage.

I can only imagine the emotional and mental strain on a child to think that your own parents left you and never came back for you regardless of what the reason might be.

But Jesus says that he’s not like that.

Yes, he’s going away, but he will absolutely, 100% come back for us so that we can live with him forever.

In verse 19 he says that he’s going away soon, “yet a little while and the world will see me no more.”

But even though the world won’t see him anymore, his disciples will still see him.

We still see Jesus every day when we look at other believers living his love.

And then Jesus makes this statement about our life linked to his life.

He says, “Because I live, you also will live.”

I take this to mean that our eternal life is based on his eternal life proved at his resurrection.

In John 5:26 Jesus said to the religious leaders, “For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.”

And in John 11:25 Jesus said to Martha, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,”

Now, at the beginning of verse 20 Jesus says, “In that day.”

The term “that day” is typically used for the day that Jesus will return in glory.

Kind of like how “the hour” or “the time” referred to Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension in glory.

The day that he’s referring to is the day he returns, the same day that we receive our glorified bodies and start our eternal life in his loving presence forever.

And that’s the same day that believers will really understand our union with all three persons of the trinity.

We understand a little of that union now, but in that day we will fully know.

Paul said as much in 1 Corinthians 13:12, “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.”

In verses 21-24 Jesus also depicts his sufficiency as the life-source of love in THIS life as we live out his love waiting for his return in glory.

Jesus says that this life of love is found in our love for Jesus, our love for each other, being loved by the Father, and being loved by Jesus.

Remember, loving Jesus means obeying him by loving each other.

And as we love Jesus by obediently loving each other the Father loves us as well.

And Jesus also loves us for obediently loving each other, and manifests himself to us through the Holy Spirit in our hearts as we obediently love each other.

This is a picture of how we experience union with all three persons of the trinity in this life.

And in verse 22 Judas (not Iscariot) asks for clarification, and Jesus explains further in verses 23-24.

In Matthew and Mark, this Judas is named Thaddaeus.

And he wants to know more about this manifestation.

Manifesting something is making something take form or making something apparent.

So how is Jesus going to make himself take form or make himself apparent to only his disciples and not to the world?

This is something that’s beyond what he could imagine.

It doesn’t make sense to him.

So Jesus clarifies.

He sums up the statement he just said, but he changes two things to make his statement a little clearer.

He changed from explaining how people obey his commandments to how people obey his word.

Keeping Jesus’ commandments is loving each other, but keeping his word is believing and submitting to the gospel.

He also changed from the concept of manifesting himself to say that both he and the Father will come and make their home in the one who loves Jesus by obediently loving each other.

And Jesus had already mentioned the Holy Spirit being IN his disciples.

So, those who believe and submit to the gospel will be loved by all three persons of the trinity.

And they will also have all three persons of the trinity living inside of them.

Then Jesus also clarifies the opposite, how he would not manifest himself to the rest of the world.

The lack of this manifestation, the lack of this loving relationship with the trinity in the rest of the world comes from not loving Jesus because they don’t believe the gospel.

They don’t believe the word that came from the Father.

They don’t believe that God loves them because they would rather believe the lies of Satan in the world.

They would rather believe that God hates them, or that God doesn’t exist.

And Jesus does not manifest himself to the world because of their willful unbelief and lack of love.

So, the first aspect of the sufficiency of Christ is the comfort that he is the way to be in his presence.

The second aspect is the comfort of the truth of his identity within the trinity.

And the third aspect of the sufficiency of Christ is the comfort that he is the source of eternal life to come and the source of the love we live now as we await his return.

Now the fourth aspect of the sufficiency of Christ is in verses 25-31.

The comfort that he is the fulfillment of all of his promises.

John 14:25–27 ESV

“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

John 14:28–29 ESV

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.

John 14:30–31 ESV

I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.

So, this is how Jesus comforts us with his promises and his faithfulness to fulfill those promises.

Jesus is Sufficient as the Fulfillment of His Promises (25-31)

In this last paragraph of chapter 14 Jesus gives three promises, and assures his disciples and us that he is sufficient to fulfill all of them.

As the disciples are worried about life after Jesus leaves… Jesus gives them the promises of help through the Holy Spirit, his own lasting and true peace, and victory over Satan.

In verses 25-26 he promises help through the Holy Spirit.

He’s comforting them now and instructing them now, but after he’s gone, he promises that the Father will send the Holy Spirit in his name to comfort them and help them remember all of Jesus’ instruction.

Remember that little phrase, “in Jesus’ name?”

The Father is going to send the Holy Spirit according to the will and authority of Jesus.

Now, Jesus’ will and authority are identical to the Father’s will and authority.

So, this context is more like the Holy Spirit acting as a representative of Jesus to his disciples and to us.

Jesus is assuring us that his loving relationship of comfort and instruction will continue through the ministry of the Holy Spirit even though he isn’t physically present with us.

Then in verses 27-29 Jesus promises his peace.

The peace he promises them is decidedly different from the so called peace in the world.

Worldly peace is usually just tolerance for a time.

But Jesus’ peace is true lasting peace that comes from a right relationship with the creator of everything and a trust that the sovereign God of the universe is all good.

The Hebrew word for peace is Shalom, and its deeper meaning can be translated “life as it was meant to be.”

When we’re not living as we were meant to live, as we were created to be… we get agitated, worried, prideful, sinful, hateful, not at peace.

But when we’re living in obedient love as we were meant to live, trusting God to be sovereign, good, and loving, we’re at peace.

This is the peace Jesus promises to give, and he is faithful to deliver on this promise.

But this peace can only really come if he goes back to the Father so that the Holy Spirit will come.

Now, just as a side note, Jesus says here at the end of verse 28 that the Father is greater than he is.

Some false doctrines have arisen about Jesus being somehow inferior to the Father using this particular verse.

But Jesus cannot mean that he’s inferior to the Father with this statement because that contradicts the many statements he’s already made about his equality with the Father.

What Jesus is talking about here is not a greater value or power, but a greater role.

This is similar to a marriage relationship.

The husband and wife are equal in value and power within their relationship and before God, but there’s still an aspect of authority and submission to keep an orderly household.

The Father is greater than Jesus simply in their roles as the Father sent the Son, and the Son was obedient to the Father, and he is now going back to the one who sent him.

So, The disciples should have rejoiced to hear that Jesus was going back to the Father, and that he would come back for them.

But they were worried about themselves, and not trusting in Jesus, not at peace.

And Jesus is telling his disciples these things now, so that when he dies, and rises again, and ascends to the Father, and the Holy Spirit comes…

When all of these things take place they’ll remember that Jesus told them beforehand, and they’ll believe.

Now, they already believe to a certain extent.

But Jesus is talking about solidifying their belief even further after all these things happen as he said they would happen, and that more solid belief would bring Jesus’ peace.

So, Jesus promised help through the Holy Spirit, and he promised his peace, and he also promised them victory over Satan in verses 30 and 31.

Jesus is almost to the point where he will not talk with them anymore.

He’s almost to the point where he will be dragged away from them and killed.

Satan has been lying to Judas to betray Jesus.

He’s been lying to the religious leaders to put Jesus to death.

He’s been lying to the people so that Jesus hasn’t lived up to their false expectations.

Now, Satan, the ruler of this sinful world system is coming for Jesus.

But he has no power over Jesus.

He has no claim on him because Jesus is sinless.

He’s not of this world, so he’s not subject to the ruler of this world.

If he were subject to the lies and manipulations of Satan, then perhaps the events that were about to take place would be devastating to Jesus’ plan.

But the truth is that Satan has no claim on Jesus, and the events that were about to take place were actually the Father’s plan, not Satan’s plan.

Jesus is being obedient to the Father so that the world will know his love for the Father.

Jesus’ obedience to go through with this horrible execution on a Roman cross proves his love for the Father…

because obedience shows love for the one you’re obeying especially when how you are obeying is not what you might want.

Jesus’ obedience also shows the world his love because through it people will be transferred from the kingdom of lies and hate ruled by Satan…

Transferred from that kingdom to the kingdom of truth and love ruled by Jesus.

Jesus will and has absolutely fulfilled his promises to you of help, peace, and victory.

Conclusion

So, we saw how Jesus is sufficient to comfort us when our future with him is unclear.

He comforts us with his sufficiency as the way to his presence.

He comforts us with his sufficiency as the truth of his identity within the trinity.

He comforts us with his sufficiency as the source of eternal life and the source of the love we live even now as we wait for his return.

And he comforts us with his sufficiency as the fulfillment of all of his promises specifically for help, peace, and victory.

Jesus is sufficient to comfort you when your future with him is unclear.

Sometimes we don’t get all the details and we try to figure things out for ourselves.

We pridefully take that responsibility when we ought to humbly trust that Jesus will take care of us because he’s sovereign, he’s good, and he loves us.

Sometimes we do get some of the details.

But I am so thankful that Jesus told his disciples and us about how we can trust him when the rest of the details are unclear.

Jesus is the way to his presence.

We don’t have to figure out the way for ourselves.

Jesus is the truth of his identity as God.

We don’t have to worry about figuring out the truth because Jesus taught us, and gave us the Holy Spirit to teach us this truth.

Jesus is the life-source of love.

We don’t have to wonder about how to live or how to have eternal life because he’s told us to love like him and his eternal life fuels our eternal life.

Jesus is the fulfillment of his own promises.

We don’t have to be left without help or without peace or without assurance of victory over the lies of Satan because Jesus has promised to give us help, peace, and victory, and he has surely fulfilled all of those promises.

Now, if you find yourself on the outside of this loving relationship with Jesus because you don’t believe.

Then now is the time to do so.

I beg you to believe in Jesus.

Trust him to be your substitute, to take the punishment for your sin.

Trust him to give you his righteousness so that you can love him and love the Father by obediently loving others.

Trust him as the way, the truth, and the life.

The only thing waiting for you if you refuse to believe is the just punishment for your own sin.

Eternity in hell away from God’s loving presence, forever experiencing his wrathful presence.

So, please believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God who loves you so much that he died for you and rose again three days later so that you could be saved from that eternally painful judgment.

He wants you to be saved, I want you to be saved, we all want you to be saved.

So that you can enter into this relationship of love with the rest of us who believe.

If you believe then please, tell someone so that we can rejoice with you and help you live in the love of Christ.

We want to help you and each other to remember the sufficiency of Christ.

So that we can all simply and peacefully trust and obey Jesus.

Pray

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